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canvasDo tiger images have meaning in Korea?
Geographically, Korea has many mountainous regions where many tigers have lived since ancient times. Unlike the dragon in legend, tigers are commonly found in the mountains and are therefore not abstract but concrete and often the subject of paintings. In real life, tigers are fearsome animals, but the tigers depicted in folk painting are very cheerful and not fearsome, but friendly and humorous like a cat. Therefore, the tiger is portrayed as a friendly animal in Korean folk tales and folk images.
There are several reasons why the image of the tiger became the subject of folk tales and folk images.
First of all, it expresses the socially critical consciousness of the Joseon Dynasty through humor, and the tiger symbolizes a nobleman, while the magpie, which was often drawn together with the tiger, represents the common people as a satirical image, and the rabbit symbolizes the merchants.
Secondly, at the beginning of the new year, the tiger image, which was used to drive away evil spirits by sticking it on the front or back door of the house, was drawn with a dignified but playfully humorous expression. For this purpose, the tiger image has a protective meaning to prevent disaster and preserve happiness.
Although it is not intended to be satirical, but rather to banish ghosts, it was probably painted with such humor and sentiment because it is a picture that needs to be displayed in the house every day and lived in together.
From a religious perspective, in Confucianism, the tiger is an animal that helps people or returns people's favor by being touched by human piety. In shamanic belief, the tiger is depicted in connection with the worship of mountain gods or the ideology of the four gods. In Buddhism, it is also associated with the mountain gods, a belief native to Korea, and tigers are worshiped as messengers of the mountain gods or as mountain gods in all temples.
In popular images, the tiger does not have a wild and fierce appearance, but rather a smiling, sometimes silly, comical appearance. Believing that he ward off evil spirits, he took a place in households and naturally became a friendly and sympathetic figure.
The friendly tiger mural printed on a Poster with passepartout, was carefully restored by artlia.
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- Original title: Tiger
- Artist: unknown
- Date: Approx. 1955
- Format: painted on our own Korean paper
- Original size: 82 x 54 cm
- Genre: Korean Folk Painting (Minhwa, 민화)
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